FoodWISE and believing diets

Gigi Berardi begins the section, “Believing Diets,” in FoodWISE, and offers some thoughts from the New York Times (and some recently published science) on sugar and exercise.     There’s a lot of sugar in those Twinkies.

Several (more) important lessons from jazzercise (no less).

I am struck by how something as simple as focus — during exercise — can actually increase caloric expenditure. It’s easy for eyes-to-glaze-over in technique class, sometimes we are barely present. True, dance can serve as a kind of meditation, but often, at least in classical ballet, the dance practice itself has direction and intent,…